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How much of African musical culture survived slavery, and what does it look like in music today?

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especially when looking at the development of African-American and Caribbean and Latin music. Enslaved Africans came from many different regions and ethnic groups, but despite being separated from their homelands and subjected to forced assimilation, certain African musical traditions seem to have survived and influenced the music that developed in the Americas.How much of what we hear in African-American, Caribbean, and other forms of diasporic music today can be connected to pre-colonial African musical traditions? And which aspects were preserved relatively directly versus being transformed through interaction with European and Indigenous musical traditions?